RECOGNITION FOR HIS FATHER 419 



To the Bev. M. J. Berkeley 



1858. 



I do not know whether I ever told you that there has 

 been for years a hitch about electing my Father into the 

 Academy at Paris, a matter now regularly jobbed. They 

 have long felt that they ought to do so, but time has crept 

 on and they have only cared to toady their own people. 

 As it is, Wallich's place is not yet filled up ! ! because one 

 party want my Father, another me, and a third (God help 

 the mark) Parlatore ! ! ! ^ I have written privately to 

 Decaisne (who is most honorable) to tell him that I must 

 not be thought of by any one, for that it would be both an 

 injustice and personal grievance to put me before my Father. 

 I could not of course allude to the matter myself to any 

 one but Decaisne (whom I knew from Brown and personal 

 knowledge that I could trust), but it may be possible for 

 you if you have occasion to write to Montague to hint to 

 him how astonished people are that my Father's claims are 

 overlooked so long by the French Botanists. They are 

 very welcome to stultify themselves by putting Parlatore 

 before Bentham, Thomson, yourself, Harvey and half a 

 dozen other men I could mention without including myself, 

 but I cannot stomach this treatment of my Father. Please 

 keep this matter private, and 



Believe me. 

 Ever affectionately yours, 



Jos. D. Hooker. 



To Dr. Anderson 



July 2, 1860. 



Excuse my mentioning that any allusion to my Father 

 in acknowledging your obligation to the Kew Plerbarium 

 (in Aden Florula) would gratify him very much. It is 

 sometimes forgotten that he is its author and owner, 

 and I know he has on such occasions felt hurt at the 

 omission. 



^ Filippo Parlatore (1816-77) was born at Palermo ; Director of the Royal 

 Museum of Natural History at Florence and Professor of Botany. He is best 

 known in England for his monograph on conifers and his unfinished Flora 

 Italiana. He was President of the Royal Tuscan Horticultural Society and of 

 the Botanical Congress in Florence, 1874. 



